Date: | Friday 5 November 1943 |
Time: | 22:45 |
Type: | Short S.25 Sunderland 3 |
Owner/operator: | British Overseas Airways Corporation - BOAC |
Registration: | G-AGIB |
MSN: | |
Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 19 / Occupants: 19 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 120 km SSW of Sollum -
Libya
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Cairo/Rod-el-Farag Seaplane Base |
Destination airport: | Djerba Seaplane Base |
Narrative:The flying boat operated on a service from Rod-el-Farag on the river Nile near Cairo, Egypt, to Poole, U.K. via Djerba, Tunisia. It took off at 21:45 from Rod-el-Farag and headed over eastern Libya towards Djerba.
En route over the desert a fire erupted behind the no. 4 engine, possibly due to an electrical fault in the flowmeter transmitter head terminal box. The fire caused a fuel line to rupture. A violent fire ensued, weakening the wing structure. The pilot likely tried to sidestep the plane in an attempt to blow out the fire. The wing section outboard of the no. 4 engine then broke off, along with the starboard float.
The flying boat descended until it struck the desert.
Sources:
Poole Flying Boats Location
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